What sort of training does one need to be a Hypno-Psychotherapist?

A demand for a Training institute to be a Full/Ordinary Member of EAHP is that they practise at least one training course the trainees of which at the end of their training can apply for the European Certificate of Psychotherapy (ECP) of the EAP - Vienna.

A Training Institute for Hypno Psychotherapy has to fullfill the criteria of two documents:

a. The EAP-ECP text for the complete 7 years training for the ECP

b. The EAHP Logbook for Training Institutes for the 4 years specific Hypno Psycho-therapy modality training

Training Institutes who are in process of fulfilling these criteria are Associate Members of EAHP.

Synopsis of the most essential points: ECP-text Febr. 2006

4 . Length and content of psychotherapy training

4.1. The total duration of the training will not be less than 3200 hours, spread over a minimum of seven years, with the first three years being the equivalent of a university degree. The later four years of which must be in a training specific to psychotherapy. The EAP will, in collaboration with NAOs and EWAOs, determine the proportion of the training elements that need to be completed prior to the ECP being awarded.

4.2. The training meets the EAP's criteria for basic professional training, and includes the following elements:

4.2.1. Personal Psychotherapeutic Experience, or equivalent. This should be taken to include training analysis, self-experience, and other methods involving elements of self-reflection, therapy, and personal experience (not less than 250 hours). No single term is agreed by all psychotherapy methods. Any training shall include arrangements to ensure that the trainees can identify and appropriately manage their involvement in and contributions to the processes of the psychotherapies that they practice in accordance with their specific methods.

4.2.2. Theoretical Study: There will be a general part of university or professional training and a part which is specific to psychotherapy. University or professional courses leading to a first University degree or its equivalent professional qualification in subjects relevant to psychotherapy may be allowed as a part of, or the whole of, the general part of psychotherapy theory, but cannot contribute towards the 4 years of specific psychotherapy training. Theoretical study during the 4 years of training specific to psychotherapy should include the following elements:

Theories of human development throughout the life-cycle

An understanding of other psychotherapeutic approaches

A theory of change

An understanding of social and cultural issues in relation to psychotherapy

Theories of psychopathology

Theories of assessment and intervention

4.2.3. Practical Training: This will include sufficient practice under continuous supervision appropriate to the psychotherapeutic modality and will be at least two years in duration.

4.2.4. Placement in a mental health setting, or equivalent professional experience: The placement must provide adequate experience of psycho-social crisis and of collaboration with other specialists in the mental health field.

4.3. Supervision, training and, where applicable, personal psychotherapy should be provided by practitioners whose training meets the criteria of the ECP. Advanced trainings for trainers and supervisors are not covered by these criteria, but will be required.

5. Completion of Training

5.1. By the end of the training, the trainee (now a practitioner) will have to have demonstrated personal, social and professional maturity and a commitment to working to a professional code and ethical standards.

5.2. There will be an assessment of both theoretical and practical work.

5.3. The practitioner should have completed required university or equivalent training in human or social sciences and the specialised 4-years of psychotherapy training, within organisations training in the same method of psychotherapy.

5.4. The practitioner must be in a professional organisation which has an ethical code, complaints and disciplinary procedure consistent with and recognised by their NAO and the relevant EWAO.

Synopsis essential items 4 years Modality Training program

Hypno Psychotherapy ECP EAHP

Totally at least 1400 hrs over 4 years

Part A. Survey of Basic/Personal Therapeutical Experience

(Totally 250 hours over 4 years)

Part B. Survey of Theory and/or methodology of Hypno Psychotherapy, including psychopathology in accordance with / related to Hypno Psychotherapy. (Total 500 - 800 hours over 4 years: 1 'hour' = 1 hour college/ examination, 10 pages of required reading, ½ page A4 of an essay: Based on the recommendations of the State University of Groningen, NL)

Part B 1: History

Items/hours according to preferences of the Training Institute

Part B 2: Knowledge/Techniques

Anatomy and Physiology

Aetiology / behavioural sciences

The classical unconscious mind

Hypnosis: trance and hypnotic phenomena

Documentation

Consultation

Contract

Therapy schedule

Session notes (case history)

Ethics

Use of Language

Induction techniques

Deepening techniques

Ideomotor Response

Posthypnotic reinforcement

Termination/Deduction

Self hypnosis

Guided imagery

Association and dissociation

Basics of other therapies in relation to Hypno Psychotherapy

Part B 3: Methods, Techniques and Interventions

Items/hours according to preferences of the Training Institute

Part B 4: Thematic Clinical Approach

Weight problems and Eating Disorders

Addictive Behaviour

Assertiveness and Self Confidence

Reactive Depression

Phobia

Performance/Test Problems

Psychosomatic problems and pain

Sexuality

Sleep Problems

Stress Problems

Part C. Survey of clinical practise/practical training with clients/patients

(Totally 300 –600 hours over the last three years)

Part D. Survey of Supervision

(Totally 150 hours during the last two years)

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